Iqbal al-Qazwini

Iqbal al-Qazwini is an Iraqi journalist and novelist. She was exiled in East Berlin, Germany in 1978 when she was in her early 20s, a consequence of Saddam Hussein's rise to power in her homeland. She has lived in Germany ever since. She has been a member of PEN International since 1993.

Al-Qazwini is best known for her 2005 novel Mamarrat al-Sukun (Amman: Dar Azminah, 2005). This was translated into English under the title Zubaida's Window by Azza el-Kholy and Amira Nowaira. As a journalist, al-Qazwini's work has appeared in various German and Arabic periodicals, such as Asharq Al-Aswat and Al Riyadh (newspaper).

Works
A list of her works:
 * Publisher and Co-Author of Die schwarze Abaya, Irakische Erzählungen, 1985
 * Translation and foreword of Poesie der Indianer, 1986
 * Co-Author of Verloren Gewonnen, zwischen Sprachfremde und Wortheimat, 2001
 * Translation of Erich Kästner's novel Die Schule der Diktatoren(from German into Arabic), 2002
 * Author of the novel Mamarrat as-Sukun (2006), Engl. Zubaida's Window (2008), 2006
 * Translation of B. Traven's novel The Death Ship (from German into Arabic), 2014